Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

Can anyone help me here, i have Outlook 2003 installed and it will not send and recieve mail from any of my accounts. Further more if you goto Tools/Options/Mail Setup and click the Send/Receive button to define groups etc. nothing happens.

Same if i click on the little arrow next to the Send/Receive box on the mail window go down to Send/Receive setting and select Define Send/Receive groups.

Its really x-ing me off.

Help.

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

and have u set it up right :) and in the setup clicked the "Test" button -

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

Yup - the test reports that it sends and receives e-mail no problem.

I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling - and repairing the installation.

None of them work.

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

Do you need outlook 2003? can you get away with outlook express?

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

Outlook Express is very old and a security hole i hear.

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

its what outlook 2003 is built on top of

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

Can you copy/paste the details of your SMTP server in the mail account properties please?

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

Well, im using the same settings in Thunderbird and they work.

However,

Pop3 is pop3.scottyb.co.uk
smtp is mailhost.zen.co.uk

When i click on test settings they all pass.

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

Why don't you just use Thunderbird?
It's a lot more secure because it doesn't use mshtml.dll (IE rendering engine) and it can use IMAP & LDAP. :)

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

Well , i am happy to do that but it dosent integrate with hotmail so its a bit annoying.

Besides, when something dosent work i like to know why.. :D

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Firewall settings?

Re: Outlook 2003 wont Send/Receive
 

Nah thats not it - its not that it just wont send and receive - its just that the Send/Receive options wont even show, and thats got nothing to do with networking.